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I discovered Omni yesterday when League of Legends dumped 20 gB of text logs on my brother’s old MacBook, eating up all available disk space and crashing it. He
by yaacov 7y ago
I discovered Omni yesterday when League of Legends dumped 20 gB of text logs on my brother’s old MacBook, eating up all available disk space and crashing it. He asked me for help. I didn’t know what was taking up all his disk space so I searched for a tool to help me and found OmniDiskSweeper. Unlike the MacOS builtin tools that try to hide the underlying file system, OmniDiskSweeper actually helped me understand the contents of the file system and discover what was eating up all the storage.
If anyone who worked on that project is reading this, thank you.
- paulryanrogers 7y agoWinDirStat is similarly nice for those on Windows, or JDiskReport for cross-platform
- lozaning 7y agoI use WinDirStat for the same thing on windows. Lets you pick and then scan a drive and then gives you a graphical view where the bigger the file the larger its block is proportionally to the other files.
- Semaphor 7y agoNot sure if WinDirStat got updated to use a different method by now, but a few years ago many people switched to WizTree [0] as it is almost instant thanks to reading the data differently. [0]: https://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wiztree-finds-the-files-and-folders-using-the-most-disk-space-on-your-hard-drive/ https://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wiztree-...
- xeromal 7y agoWinDirStat is still slow as shit. I use it weekly. haha
- binaryman1 7y agoI use Directory Report on Windows. It is faster than WinDirStat
- krackers 7y agoI'm partial to DaisyDisk for it's wonderful graphical view
- AlphaSite 7y agoSpace gremlin is pretty awesome as well.
- tonywastaken 7y agoAs a poor college student, I went for the cheapest storage option on my MacBook. Running OmniDiskSweeper every once allowed me to maximize the storage I did have.
- prawn 7y agoI've used Grand Perspective for this: http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
- chrisweekly 7y agoI like GrandPerspective too.
- weiming 7y agodust (du + rust) [1] makes for a good oss alternative. [1] https://github.com/bootandy/dust https://github.com/bootandy/dust
- lonelappde 7y agoNot in the same league UI wise
- asciimike 7y agoIIRC, OmniDiskSweeper and OmniWeb are just things Ken and Tim (CEO and CTO) work on in their spare time, mostly because they enjoy hacking on that stuff. Not sure if they're on HN, but Ken (@kcase) will certainly respond if you tweet your thanks at him!
- dewey 7y agoncdu is also a nice (free) alternative and can be installed via Homebrew (brew install ncdu): https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu